Med 5 Blog Task 11

By Monday 27-11 for 13C. For 13D - discuss with teacher.

TASK ELEVEN
Mulvey

• In your own words, write a summary on your blog of the arguments that Laura Mulvey puts forward in her Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (1975). (13C should have already done this) As you know, this is one of the key texts in Media Studies when considering the representation of women. You can consult the two handouts that you've been given so far on her ideas or do some additional research on the internet (and don't forget to check the Essential Word Dictionary). Try to include as many of the keywords that we have covered...

Freud, psychoanalysis, the unconscious, resistance, repression, scopophilia, voyeurism, castration, sadism/masochism, fetishization/fetish object, objectification, patriarchy, misogyny, identification, narcissism, idealization, anxiety, audience positioning/spectatorship, MALE GAZE, narrative cinema, phallic objects, womb/penis envy.

• Then post up on your blog a mini-essay about how the theory could be useful for you in your Independent Study. How can you apply it to your text and the representations within it? Again use as many of the keywords as you can. For most of you this will definitely be the case and even where it is not immediately obvious that you might be able to refer to it, try to be creative because it is a theory that you must know well. If there are men or women in your text then it's likely to be possible! Try to identify key scenes/moments where the theory is especially useful as well as considering the whole text/genre in the light of Mulvey's ideas.
  

• If you really feel that it's not relevant to you (although it's doubtful that this is the case) then you need to choose another theory/theorist that you haven't already covered and do the above with them.